The poetical works of lord Byron. Repr. with notes, &c, Issue 35F. Warne, 1868 |
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... heard his seeming artless tale , I heard his sighs upon the gale : My breast was never pity's foc , But felt for all the baby's woe . I drew the bar , and by the light , Young Love , the infant , met my sight ; His bow across his ...
... heard his seeming artless tale , I heard his sighs upon the gale : My breast was never pity's foc , But felt for all the baby's woe . I drew the bar , and by the light , Young Love , the infant , met my sight ; His bow across his ...
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... heard in yonder hall : It rises hoarsely through the sky , And vibrates o'er the mouldering wall . Yes , when the eddying tempest sighs , It shakes the shield of Oscar brave ; But there no more his banners rise , No more his plumes of ...
... heard in yonder hall : It rises hoarsely through the sky , And vibrates o'er the mouldering wall . Yes , when the eddying tempest sighs , It shakes the shield of Oscar brave ; But there no more his banners rise , No more his plumes of ...
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... heard . Thus let him hurry on , nor think to rest : Who speaks the fastest ' s sure to speak the best ; Who utters most within the shortest space May safely hope to win the wordy race . The sons of science these , who , thus repaid ...
... heard . Thus let him hurry on , nor think to rest : Who speaks the fastest ' s sure to speak the best ; Who utters most within the shortest space May safely hope to win the wordy race . The sons of science these , who , thus repaid ...
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... heard your voices Rise on the night - rolling breath of the gale ? ' Surely the soul of the hero rejoices , And rides on the wind , o'er his own Highland vale . Round Loch na Garr while the stormy mist gathers , Winter presides in his ...
... heard your voices Rise on the night - rolling breath of the gale ? ' Surely the soul of the hero rejoices , And rides on the wind , o'er his own Highland vale . Round Loch na Garr while the stormy mist gathers , Winter presides in his ...
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... heard at a distance the Highlander's song : At eve , on my heath - cover'd couch of repose , more Shall rise to my sight in their mantles of snow : But while these soar above me , unchanged as before , Will Mary be there to receive me ...
... heard at a distance the Highlander's song : At eve , on my heath - cover'd couch of repose , more Shall rise to my sight in their mantles of snow : But while these soar above me , unchanged as before , Will Mary be there to receive me ...
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Page 144 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — »The foe! They come! they come!« And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering...
Page 172 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 173 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 172 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, •To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll!
Page 144 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!
Page 151 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 144 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated; who could guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise!
Page 59 - She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 71 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted— ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 156 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy...